Sharp Cemetery / Miller Wolf Cemetery

Coolspring Township La Porte County,
Indiana

Located in NE 1/4, Sec. 22, Township 37N, Range 4W

Read Aug. 2000 / Apr. 2003, by Patricia Gruse Harris and her
husband Bill Harris. Stones were repaired and cleaned on the weekend of March
4, 2003 and again in late April, 2003 by Mark Davis. Many of the inscriptions
that were not visible before, can now be read. Pat submitted the following
reading for the web site.If you have a query or additional information on
this cemetery please contact us at laportecountyin@yahoo.comPhotos taken by Russ
Hapke.

#4
Isaac JACOBUS Died Feb. 16, 1856 In his 41 year "Asleep to earth my
home is in heaven"

Footstone: see
#4B

#5
Our Mother Rachel Wife of Isaac JACOBUS Died Apr. 10, 1876 Age 60
Yrs 2 ds. "Farewell dear Mother a long farewell Your sorrow
and suffering are oer May each of us live that will join you at
last On the beautiful heavenly shore"

age 79 yrs Age does not match other source
for DOB. Major - Army - War of 1812 -Flagholder

Pattee

Maria Wood

Apr 10, 1844 1841 ?

age 52 -one reading shows age 65 yrs.
difference in reading stone.

Sharp

Thomas

Aug 24, 1789

Sept 12, 1838

b. Kentucky - A soldier of War of
1812

Sharp

Angeline

Dec 14, 1831

Mar 19, 1843

dau. Thomas & Elizabeth

Interviews and Notes given to Deanna West for
entry:

Ref: Cemeteries of La Porte County, Indiana

Mr. Thomas Sharp was the original owner of the
land where the Sharp Cemetery now sits. In the early 1800's Mr. Sharp donated
the land for this cemetery as a burial place for his family and neighbors. The
area donated measured 388 feet by 125 feet.

Rachel Carter Jacobus, wife of Isaac, was a
pioneer school teacher in the County. She taught the first school in New Durham
Township and the first day of school commenced on New Years Day, 1833. The
school was located in Section 22 of New Durham township on Mr. William Eahart's
farm. She married Mr. Isaac Jacobus on Nov. 17, 1836 and lived on the farm in
Coolspring Township until her death in 1876.

The cemetery was abandoned for burials some time
after 1880.

Sharp Cemetery was evidently also named Miller Wolf Farm
Cemetery at one time. In interviewing Marian Miller and James Miller,
descendents of Fred W. Miller, who owned the Miller farm and also their
knowledge of Mrs. Caroline Wolf and her son William Wolf, the following was
stated. Even though the cemetery was known by the residents of the area to be
Miller-Wolfe Farm Cemetery, there are no Miller or Wolf family members buried
there. Fred W. Miller and most of his family and descendents are buried in
Pinhook Cemetery, La Porte County and in Greenwood Cemetery in Michigan City,
Indiana. In 1895 the cemetery was positioned mainly on the Wolf farm property
with the 388 feet of length running North and South along the fence line of the
Wolf and Miller properties. (See Map below)

The old Wolf farmhouse still stands facing Wozniak Road,
between Cynthia Drive and Diane Drive.

At one time there was a road (wagon path) that came in a North
West direction crossing Wozniak Road. The path crossed between what is now
known as 275N and where the grape arbors on Jim Miller's land sits today. This
wagon path went by the cemetery positioned on the top of a small rise. Once
past the cemetery it angled sharply in a South West direction toward what is
now known as Shebel Road. However, as lands were divided and sold, this path
was eliminated. The county roads including Wozniak running North /South along
with 275 N and 200 N East/West Roads were the main route of transportation for
those living in this rural neighborhood. Much of the Fred W. Miller land has
remained in the family through the generations.

After William Wolf's death, between 1945 and 1950, a Mr.
Gambraro and Walter Brellis purchased the Wolf property from the inheritors of
the Wolf farm. Mr. Gambraro maintained a business in Chicago, while Mr. Brellis
farmed the land.

In the 1960's the county erected a simple sign for the
cemetery and placed a fence and gate around a portion of the cemetery where the
stones were still visible. (See picture above) In the late 1960's Mr. Chuck
Bartel purchased a large portion of the old Wolf Farm. In the mid 1970's Mr.
Bartel divided it into the subdivision known as Orchard Estates. The cemetery
now sits on private land off of Wozniak Road on Diane Drive in Orchard
Estates.

Disclaimer: Below is an older cemetery listing was done by a
volunteer group who went out and recorded the location of plots and individuals
buried there. Notes added under "Additional Comments" column contain both
personal notes added by transcriber at cemetery site and some tombstone
readings. It is this writers opinion that there are other unmarked graves
within this
cemetery.